Individual Artist Books

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Matisse and Picasso

Order Frederic Remington

Frederic Remington (Library of American Art Series)
by James K. Ballinger. Hardcover, 160 pages.

Order Toulouse-Lautrec:
Scenes of the Night

Toulouse-Lautrec : Scenes of the Night (Discoveries) by Claire Freches, Jose Freches, Alexandra Campbell. Paperback. This compassionate narrative combines with reminiscences of the artist's friends to vividly evoke Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's tragic, bohemian life. Sumptuous reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings show why his artistic influence was so great. 227 illustrations, many in full color. Bibliography. Index.

Order Andy Warhol:
Films and Paintings:
The Factory Years

Order Rene Magritte:
1898-1967

Rene Magritte : 1898-1967 (Big Art Series) by Jacques Meuris, Rene Magritte. Hardcover, 216 pages. The artist's most unforgettable images come together in an exquisite study of his life and work. This comprehensive and provocative monograph traces the influences on Magritte's art while 400 illustrations show the full range of his work. Not only the well-known paintings but also lesser-known murals, photographs, sculptures, and commercial works are represented. 400 illustrations, 110 in full-color.

Order Inside Bruegel:
The Play of Images
in Children's Games

Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in Children's Games
by Edward A. Snow. Hardcover, 248 pages. Peter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569), with his canvases of peasants in the fields and squares of Flanders, is one of the world's great painters. Here Edward Snow undertakes a sustained meditation on a single Bruegel painting--the kaleidoscopic CHILDREN'S GAMES. This elegantly written and beautifully produced book shows us anew the power of great painting and the pleasures of passionate observation. 150 illustrations.

Order Mary Cassatt:
Modern Woman

Mary Cassatt : Modern Woman
by Judith A. Barter, George T. M. Shackleford, Erica E. Hirshler, Mary Cassatt. Hardcover, 320 pages. One of the few women artists to succeed professionally in her era, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) holds a unique place in the history of art. This handsome volume, richly illustrated with works spanning Cassatt's entire career, accompanies a major traveling exhibition that opens at The Art Institute of Chicago October 1998. 300 illustrations, 100 in color.

Order Chagall:
The Lithographs

Chagall: The Lithographs by Marc Chagall, Christofer Conrad, Henri Dechamps, Hans Kinkel, Ulrike Gauss. Hardcover, 440 pages. Chagall: The Lithographs is a vast collection (1,050 individual pieces) dating from 1922 to 1985. This beautifully produced catalogue raisonné includes descriptions of Chagall's lithographic process, which utilized stone or zinc plates and acid, and interviews with the printers who worked with Chagall to produce these pieces. This is a lovely, colorful book that reproduces many of the best examples of this important artist's favorite works.

Order Leonardo Da Vinci:
Origins of a Genius

Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius by David Alan Brown. Hardcover, 248 pages. This beautiful book is the first full-length study of Leonardo's beginnings as an artist. It discusses his years in Verrocchio's workshop and his subsequent work on his own, the development of his technique, and the relationship of his early paintings to each other and to their sources. Leonardo's stature as a giant who changed the course of western art is uncontested. Yet until now there has been no full-length study of the young Leonardo and his earliest works. This book presents the most complete account ever written of Leonardo's mysterious beginnings as an artist.